Pay it forward
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Pay it forward is an expression for describing the beneficiary of a good deed repaying it to others instead of to the original benefactor. The concept is old, but the phrase may have been coined by Lily Hardy Hammond in her 1916 book In the Garden of Delight.
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See also
- Random act of kindness
- Reciprocity (social psychology)
- Reciprocity (cultural anthropology)
- Six degrees of separation
- Social business
- Social responsibility
- Gift economy
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